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BYE WEEK THREAD: PART 2

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Just opening a fresh thread to continue the conversation since the prior thread is getting bloated.

(Angry, feel free to delete this one if you have another topic ready to go)

436 COMMENTS

    • They’re much better live than their studio tracks. I went just to hear Haynes, and I wasn’t disappointed. I’ve seen him live a couple times, and I’m never disappointed. He explores some funky blues and jazz progressions.

  1. Isn’t it amazing how Riley’s become a serial career-killer ever since going Corn?

    Hank Hughes (Defensive Line Coach) – fired
    Mark Banker (Defensive Coordinator…technically) – sacked
    Bruce Read (Speshul Teams Coach) – booted
    Shawn Eichorst (Athletic Directing Moron) – directed out the door

    I bet Cav and Langs are next. It’s like a horror flick with people falling one by one, as the murderer stares blankly off into the distance chewing his gum.

    Golly!

      • How could they not understand that going in to it? I would guess these numbnuts are getting decent severance. Like I said before, one of the most bizarre miracles of the modern college football era. Riley goes from the hot seat at OSU to a job with Nebraska.

        • I doubt it was perceived that way outside of OSU. Everyone else thought Riley was an amazing coach because he had some winning seasons at OSU. They figured he could be at the Nick Saban level at school like Nebraska. Fools.

    • Meh… very few could defend their status beyond being a position coach. We’re seeing the same thing now. I don’t know why anyone would get on GA for asking Coach K to step up but understanding when he gets shot down. I believe Coach K can be a great DC. He doesn’t think he’s ready. I defer to him. But you have to ask.

      However, some head coaches lose a great DC then turn to their DB newbie and say, “Are you ready?” And I’m loathe to respect that DB newbie if he were to accept that challenge unprepared.

      But I can’t blame him for taking advantage of the situation. Can I?

      There are position coaches who are born head coaches. There are head coaches who are born coordinators. There are coordinators who are born position coaches.

      We’ve seen all of them in the last five years.

  2. OT. Jordan Poyer off to an impressive start:


    The Oregonian/OregonLive

    Buffalo Bills safety Jordan Poyer is leading a revival of the defense and being mentioned as one of the best free agent signings in 2017.

    The former Oregon State star is tied for the team lead in sacks with two, is third in tackles with 14 and has one of the team’s two interceptions. Poyer six passes defended is second in the NFL and he posted 11 tackles (seven solo), one sack and three passes defensed in the 9-3 loss to the Carolina Panthers in Week 2. ”

    And has a 4-year, $13M contract…

  3. NiceBeaver had a comment in the last thread about CTE and the potential relationship to steroid use.

    I think that even if steroids don’t have a direct connection to CTE, they have an indirect connection in that they’re making players bigger, faster, and stronger; and thus making their tackles and hits more brutal. I think a serious crackdown on steroids would be a huge win for player safety, even without a direct link to CTE or other health issues.

    Related: I talked to a guy whose HS buddy went to USC a few years back. He said the vast majority of the team was juicing, and the only guys who weren’t were the handful of guys that were just so strong/athletic that they didn’t need to. This is USC, mind you, where you don’t get an offer if you’re not an elite athlete. Bottom line: everyone is doing it.

  4. “College Coaches and Administrators United Against Rileyitis… the great killer of careers”

    College coaches all across America on Saturday, September 23, will chew gum the entire game to eradicate Rileyitis. Rileyitis results in an abrupt ending to an otherwise promising or in many cases entirely mediocre college coaching career. Side effects include being stranded in the middle of no where with little or no opportunity. Early symptoms are being thrown overboard or under a bus.

    • Match the Head Coach to their win-loss record (first 3 years at a school):

      Mack Brown 10-27
      Bill Snyder 8-25
      Mike Macintyre 13-20
      Kirk Ferentz 11-24

        • I still think he’ll prove you wrong. Nobody can say all the right things like he does without believing them in some way. The mystifying part is the disconnect between what he says and what happens on the field.

          If the team even remotely walks the talk, they will look like the just-above-.500 team we have realistic expectations to see.

          They have yet to do this.

  5. This summer after Mike has been shit canned, will GA hit the gas and run Riley over on his way to work when Smilin’ is back in town and biking furiously around the streets of Corvallis chomping his gum and flashing that demented smile?

  6. In his third year at Utah State, CGA (with the help of Robert Turbin and Chuckie Keeton on O & Bobby Wagner on D) started the season 1-3… and went on to win 6 of the next 8 regular season games…

  7. Watching the Boise state and Virginia game, it feels like every team aside from OSU can find a QB that can make the quick decisions and throws. How can the OSU coaches be so ineffective in noticing QB talent?

    We’ve wasted scholarships on Blount, Moran, and maybe even Willard now. It looks like Petra’s is the first recruit that might be the real deal (if he keeps his pledge and the play calling isn’t atrocious).

    I also wonder if anyone is putting pressure on GA and his staff. I wish reporters would call out the difference between what GA Said he was gonna do (run more) and what actually happened (pass more) and the disconnect between that in all 4 games. Nobody’s willing to put their neck on the line.

  8. Not sure if I should watch football today, or watch our president call out professional athletes all day. So far, he’s “uninvited” Steoh Curry from visiting the White House (even though Curry declined the invite first) and now he says “get that son of a bitch off the field” referring to Colin Kapernick. It was at a rally in Alabama, for his national anthem protests (is he even playing for anybody?)

    There must be more important news happening that he’s trying to distract the fake news from covering.

    This is going to turn into an all out athletes vs potus twitter war any moment.

  9. OT Amy is two and two after last weeks lose to Ohio state university and then this week they lost to Tulane while being up until less then 1:00 min to play. But they are the #3 team in rushing in the nation with 6.4 yards per carry

  10. Greg McElroy on the correct call of clipping against USC:

    “He’s not engaged with anyone when he gets blocked. I’m going to have to disagree with the refs on that one.”

    Put that Bama education to work, big boy!

  11. Wasn’t Cal a “Bear Raid” type of offense under Dykes? They’re playing a physical run game, running it 10 times on the last TD drive against USC. 10-3 Cal.

    Just boggles my mind that OSU can’t find a way to run the ball.

  12. In the 80s, a Nebraska football team who took the time to get chippy with Rutgers would be the equivalent of the greatest nation on earth picking a fight with North Korea.

    Yeah… you’re showing us who’s boss.

  13. Riley just ran a 3rd and 1 play that I have never seen him run before. It was an old Schembechler play plus some useless motion stuff.

    Where was that when he was here?

    Where was that last week?

  14. I know this information may be buried in the other thread but, did the league office look into that targeting call on Luton? Seemed to me that the guy should have been suspended. IRC they can call it targeting later in the week and add the suspension.

      • Yes, it was a bang bang football play.

        Once the defender launches himself with the crown of his helmet down, it no longer matters what contact is made.

      • It’s a legal hit because the QB is not giving himself up. He’s a runner, going down in a forward direction and fighting for yards. Thus he is not a defenseless player, thus the targeting rules (leading with the crown of the helmet; leaving your feet) don’t apply. To be a defenseless player he would need to be sliding, feet first.

        That said, it still looks a little dirty to me. Like they (successfully) took advantage of an opportunity to lay a big hit on him.

  15. I hadn’t thought of this since I was watching Riley coach OSU.

    By looking at wherever Riley is on the sideline and what he’s looking at, you can guess with 95% certainty what the play will be.

  16. NU is starting to dominate on the ground as they should. Looks like Bike will have a week with some of the heat off for now. He’s still getting fired at the end of the season.

      • That was a weird spot and the announcers were very casual about it. The dude working with Mason seems to have a hard on for NU, not sure who he is.

        Almost a Riley moment, NU fumbles on the Rutgers 10, but recovers it.

        • It’s like every time I switch to a college football game, I get to see a highlight where the guy they’re praising is doing something illegal. And then I get to watch the refs run from out of picture to the right of my screen to spot the ball a yard beyond where it landed.

          I’ve seen a lot of the latter in recent years. It just blows my mind.

  17. Golly Harbaugh!

    Purdue just put 10 in the box.

    Why did you run off-guard for a TD?

    You could have passed the ball.

    Purdue did play a decent game, for Purdue. If they keep trying to take on bigger foes straight up, they will eventually become their foes. It’s an honorable loss given their status at the moment.

      • PU’s o line has almost no depth, as is the case with most of the other areas. It was good for 3 quarters and fun to watch. Questionable targeting calls against Purdue. Stay tuned for a beat down against Minny.

          • The B1G has a lot of upside in coaching. I think the money involved has kept them in the BCS/play-off thingy. The Big 12 (not nine or eight or maybe ten) had a couple teams (Okie or oSu) who could have beaten anyone on any given day.

            But let’s let the market decide.

        • I don’t even question targeting any more. If you were called, you’re guilty. The parameters are fairly set. Kids make mistakes. It’s not personal unless a team has an abundance of them.

          Purdue was just over-matched in the trenches. But they fought in those same trenches as late as garbage time. I would be happy with that from my own team.

  18. Ugh!

    This experiment is almost over.

    Today has been such a waste of time for so little reward.

    … and then the wheel route off motion isn’t obvious… ugh.

  19. did anybody happen to listed in to “Husker Post Game Overreaction” on 1620 the Zone in Omaha? or Husker Max or whatever the name of that site that banned Angry? I can only report that at half time, with Rutgers ahead 17-14, Nebraska was booed heading to the locker room which absolutely mortified the radio announcers.

  20. Imagine AFA in red instead of blue… and wit much better players.

    NCAA football would hate Troy Calhoun at Nebby.

    I have to give angry credit on that call. I wanted Fleck as our coach. He wanted Calhoun. I think both would have us up and running right now relatively speaking. I still think stealing Fleck at that time would not have been a reach.

    But I can imagine many of my responses to his verbology.

    • I wish we were that pathetic.

      Are they running the ball a la the Fred Taylor days?

      If not, they better have a Tebow in their pocket. Florida should win every game most years just because they can grind you to a pulp if they so chose that route.

      Having seen GA and his “I’d like to do what’s successful… unless the other team defends us… then we’ll do something unsuccessful… because they would never expect that…

      … Jim McElwain (apparently pronounced with a Mac) will suck at Uffla.

  21. OH! OH! OH!

    It’s time for the obligatory, “Why the hell couldn’t GA get Herbert as a QB recruit? He’s such a failure,” post.

    Who will make it first?

    • Perhaps because he grew up in Eugene and went to Sheldon HS… about 3.5 miles from U of 0….. about the same distance as OSU from Crescent Valley HS…. how is GA doing on that front?

      • Sheldon’s a helluva lot closer to Nikegon than CV is to OSU.

        Hell, OSU can almost get to an airport before they could get to CV.

        Anyway, what’s your point? Are you upset because GA ain’t hard for Marco Brewer?

        • First have you ever even been to Corvallis?…. your reference to CV makes me wonder…2nd…. yeah I think all OSU fans should be disturbed by the Beavs not getting a bit of live from any of the 10 top reqruits in the state thus far for the year.

          • So 3rdgenbeav,

            I need for you to tell me about your Corvallis expertise. Anything not google-able would be a start.

            Here’s one for you. What’s the address of the hospital where I was born?

            Assume I was born in Benton County somewhere. That should help your calculations some, you pissant puke puddle.

          • Jack what is this some prove who has the most right to being fucking pissed at how the Beavers are doing?…. no I am not quite as old as you but my grandpa … 3 uncles mom, dad, sister and I plus about 5 cousins all have degrees from OSU…. I sat in the rain as a kid watching the crap that we called football…. I was there when Riley finally got us over the hump to a bowl game…. been a season ticket holder for almost 20 years…. so call me a duck you old bastard…. ps our recruiting and our team sucks right now…,

          • Your weak analogies of your pretend existence in Corvallis are meaningless, you fuck stick pushed up my ass for no reason.

            You challenged my Corvallis-dom.

            I will run fucking circles around you when it comes to what Corvallis is now and what Corvallis was when I was born, you little pile of withering shit eaten by worms then shit out again.

            To paraphrase the wife of the moron who is the Treasury secrectary of the fuckstick who is POTUS, I pay more in taxes in Corvallis than you do, so go fuck yourself.

            Wait… that’s not a nice thing to say. Nor is it smart. What am I thinking?

            Oh… it has been defended by you who will now choose not to defend it.

            If you have anything relevant to the topic at hand, I’d love to talk about that.

          • Jack I had assumed you were born at the vet hospital on campus but if not then Sammaritan would be your parents choice ps I was born in Lebanon grew up a half hour from Corvallis so go find yourself someone else to try and throw your old man pent up shit with…. I still commute from Idaho for the games…when work allows so once again enjoy your night….

          • Fishing?… well jack doesn’t that have a lot to do with football?.., when I was growing up I fished the Calapooia…. now I don’t have much time but I like to fish below the dam at Foster lake near sweet home…. oh wait is that to far forcyku to drive?

          • Two simple questions, two stupid answers that have nothing to do with the questions.

            Have you ever been to Corvallis?

            I hope you have. I rather like it, and I would suggest to anyone they visit. You might learn something about it if you went.

  22. Why?

    Why up?

    When you make the sign of the cross, why do you point up? That looks like you’re a stupid. Trust me. I was an acolyte when mass was in Latin. God is supposed to be everywhere.

    Why up?

  23. Willie didn’t look like his assured self those last two unimpressive Duck drives. Take away 30 yards in ASU penalties and there wasn’t much happening. Maybe this will quiet the “Ducks are back” talk for awhile.

  24. I feel much better about the Civil War after watching the Duck game. I think, as it stands right now, OSU can compete on a good day. The only part holding the “win” part back is the horrendous play-calling. OSU certainly has more offensive weapons available than the Sun Devils, but it is a matter of using them effectively to keep the chains moving, which the coaches miserably fail to do. Cut the toughness shit and start learning some X’s and O’s.

    Ducks defense was on the field for 38 minutes tonight, but the offense kept the team in it by answering ASU when down 17.

    • Don’t worry about the CW until the game is played.

      You can’t pick a winner beyond giving the home team three points.

      Any book who deviates from that is just a gambler.

  25. So this is what I see:

    Navy and AFA are some pretty darn good teams.

    Arky is Wazzu, and I think they coug’d it

    Iowa needs to recruit taller linebackers.

    The Ducks… well… it writes itself.

    I’m starting to dislike Chris Petersen for no reason.

      • I watched four matches (only Chelsea in the PL), one truck race and downloaded and watched a hurling match because I was fucking bored by college football.

        And I still managed to make the day something of an NFL RedZone.

        I love NFL RZ.

        It makes football palatable.

        That’s your bar. Do it that well, or don’t do it. What are you going to do… go on strike?

        Oh yeah… your labor is commoditized.

        Did you not know that?

        • I think there is a question of context and relativism. If they are all (or most) “big plays,” are they really “big plays,” anymore, or is the game being played poorly?

          I didn’t see the, so I don’t know if there was some well played defense, or it was matador defense with long offensive plays?

          But I think the notion of lots of big plays and (often) poorly played defense is becoming a viewing problem for NCAA football and it is making it boring. If the WWF-quality refereeing we saw in the CWS becomes common to NCAA football – and some might say it already it is – it becomes even less watchable.

        • Big play?

          Or no D?

          I only saw glaring weaknesses in any of the previous big plays in that game. When I can make the passes some of these QBs make for “big” plays, that takes a lot of the shine off the word.

  26. Some fall ball notes from the GT……………

    “OSU finished the 2017 season 56-6 overall, matching Texas’ 1975 team for the fourth-best winning percentage of the CWS era (1950-present). But the Beavers suffered their first two-game losing streak of the year in Omaha, falling to eventual-champion LSU in the bracket finals.”

    LSU won it all? Crackpot reporting there GT

    “Right-handed pitcher Drew Rasmussen, who was drafted 31st overall by the Tampa Bay Rays but did not sign, will miss the upcoming season following a second Tommy John surgery.”

    How in the fuck does that happen that quickly? Poor rehab? Failed surgery? Shitty doctor? I’d be asking some serious questions.

    http://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/baseball/osu-baseball-with-returners-everywhere-beavers-get-back-to-work/article_ed7f0d34-5eaf-5818-a9db-60ee34ae4296.html

  27. I couldn’t help but LMAO tonight watching the ducks lose to a 1-2 ASU team. The talk this week about Freeman and Herbert being Heisman candidates…..funny stuff. The ducks have yet to play a quality opponent but they thought they’d breeze by ASU…..more losses are coming and then those fans will be throwing Taggart under the bus too just like they did Helfrich….Yes, the ducks are back…..LMAO.

  28. Does anyone know of a work around when those hacks at oregonlive close down your ip address….I love sticking it to some duck fans but clownzano had olive shut me down because I called him out on the dolphinII Strip Club sponsoring his radio show….if anyone knows a work around, let me know…..I appreciate it. Clownzano is pretty thin skinned when especially when he knows he’s wrong and rather than admit it, he took the pussy way out…I’m guessing the dolphinII is still a sponsor of his radio show….I stopped listening to the hypocrite jerk after he went on his multiple rants about Luke Heimlich….

  29. From this thread’s posts, it appears that Jack is that one fan in every fan base who goes over the top too easily. Similar to how Randy Marsh tries to pick fights with parents at his son’s little league games, always in your face but also feels obligated to share some sort of opinion.

  30. So about Beaver Football….. how many touches are you people predicting Nall gets next week? In other words is the game plan adjusted post Luton or do they keep the run away train of passing go straight down the tracks?

  31. One of the details i noticed in last night’s ASU win was they let the play clock run till there were only a few seconds left on nearly every play. Because of this, they really controlled tim of possession, while also giving their defense plenty of rest between series.
    All year I’ve thought OSU needed to slow it down as well, but instead they opt to use some no huddle, hurry up offense, which has beem giving their opponents extra oppotunities to run up the score in the 2nd half.
    Curious if the tempo changes with Garretson

    • Funny you mention that. My limited observation was the opposite, in the final five or six minutes of the game I watched ASU snap with 12-17 seconds still on the clock. I thought about that when nike u had the ball with less than 30 seconds remaining; could have already been over.

      As for OSU, I’ve noticed some good clock usage……and some bad. Come to think of it, most of the good may have been recollections from last season.

  32. I don’t know about you guys, but last night was the best I’ve seen the Beavers play all year (they didn’t). Not holding out a whole lot of hope based on what I’ve seen that there will be much to look forward to the rest of the season.

  33. Congrats to Jack for carrying an entire thread through the weekend with more unread posts than anyone in the history of angrybeavs.

    I would guess Jack is at nearly 250 of 350 posts on this thread so far.

    • Ewww!

      The View makes you… um… deadlift?

      And what’s sharper than the spa? Certainly not you.

      Why don’t you gather all your little personalities up and read a book? You could play act the parts with each part of you taking turns. Wouldn’t it be fun? It might help you with that deadlift issue you’ve been having lately.

      They say deadlifting happens to everyone. So know that you and all your personalities are not alone. There’s help out there, little buddies.

  34. Jack is allowed to do his usual impersonation of a robocall, and Angry pleads for someone to buy a cup of coffee, WTF! Perhaps I’ll consider buying a pot of coffee if/when Angry gets Jack in the box.

  35. Jake Browning’s father Ed, played QB at OSU from 1987-91 and he couldn’t convince Jake to become a legacy?!? : )

    Game starts at 5, but is on PAC network.

    • Here you go:

      Guys are fighting like heck….

      Owe to Beaver Nation…

      Big Boy Pants….

      In the Pac 12, the conference of champions every game is a big boy fight, and Washington has a great team…

      Our responsibility as coaches to put the guys in the right positions…

      Players make the plays…..

      Best college town in the pac 12…

  36. “You also saw the Bobcats use more two- and three-back sets, and Murray lined up under center in various short-yard situations.” Montana State adjustment after a bye week and then getting a Big Sky win over North Dakota.

    And this: “If you were to ask me who do I want to be in a perfect world: Getting in ‘21’ personnel (two backs and a tight end) and pound people and take their souls and have fun doing that,” Choate said. “But that’s probably not who we are right now.” Nothing about big boy pants.

    If only I were reading something like that about the Beavs defeating a Pac-12 opponent.

    • “Getting in ‘21’ personnel (two backs and a tight end) and pound people and take their souls and have fun doing that,”

      Love that sentiment and that he said it out loud.

  37. USC’s Darnold has already thrown 7 INTs, after throwing 9 all of last season, so at least we likely won’t have to hear about his Heismann chances much longer….

    USC at WSU could be interesting this weekend.

    • I’d be surprised if USC didn’t grind Wazzu’s D to a pulp. And it does seem Darnold and Falk are making a lot more mistakes this year. I’m surprised Falk is still standing.

      • Yup.
        The lip smacking continues, especially during the opening statement. Sign of ???

        Points I noticed:
        1) Mention of the strength of the UW DL, prelude to another pass heavy Beavs O??
        2) When asked about Noah’s role, the answer was basically, “check with Kevin”.
        3) Remarks about how the team will never be the same (players AND coaches) after the season is complete.

        This was the opportunity for GA to make a statement about any coaching change and/or any new philosophical thrust………didn’t happen. So, yeah, Groundhog Day.

        • Probably a sign of him just finishing lunch.If he had a toothpick, he might have flicked a pork chop out of his teeth.

          It’s a lot of coach speak. The two parts I’m concerned about are when he was talking about not asking players to do things they can’t do and when he was talking run/pass balance in the end. It’s as if he thinks passing is the cornerstone of the O’s foundation. He’s said previously that we have to pass to set up the run (that’s not Groundhog Day). It’s as if he’s saying if we can’t pass, then we can’t run?

          I understand an averse reaction to his time at Wiscy. If you drop back to pass more than 15 times, you’re a loose cannon. But no team needs to drop back more than 30 times per game (unless that is their only mode of operation, like Wazzu) to win football on any level. Yes, you have to be efficient and make good decisions and get some decent production out of that side of your O. But we also have to run the ball with our backs 35+ times, or we’re never going to be efficient in the passing game.

          Maybe DG’s arm limits what our coaches think might be asking too much of him, and we luck into some Nall ball?

        • More deflecting offensive questions? Aren’t head coaches supposed to be like CEO’s? Why doesn’t he ever know what’s going on with the offense?

          New GA motto: Pants on, hands off, can’t win.

  38. Eggers up with a piece on GA’s resolve (he says he’ll continue to fight my ass off).

    GA, “I want to see us play disciplined football,” he says. “That’s on the damn coaches. We have to be more disciplined. We have to work our asses off not to have those big swings that come our way.”

    –Not looking good for Evans to play this season.
    –GA acknowledges that the team “will rally around” Garretson; is this a recognition on the part of GA that the team views DG as a more deserving QB? I think not.

    http://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sports/373287-257243-resolve-remains-for-osus-andersen

    • “So the OSU coaches must be selective in the recruiting process. And they’ll likely take at least a few graduate or JC transfers who can provide immediate help.”

      Seems like Andersen and his staff have relatively poor track record on the JCs? DeCoud and maybe that RB name(?) who could have garnered more carries with his productivity and tough running style. Anyone else?

      And they need to qualify….

      • Tim Cook – now on Jacksonville’s practice squad. I know, Jacksonville, practice squad. But imo, Andersen completely screwed over Tim Cook even after TC played really well in a game (?) when Nall was injured. I started doubting Andersen about then – Cook not only didn’t play much, he rarely played at all after that game. Perhaps Andersen didn’t notice because he isn’t involved in the offense, in which case he shouldn’t be getting paid for being the head coach.

        • I think Tim Cook has the size and ability to stick on a regular NFL roster. He’s in the NFL’s Siberia now, but imagine if he gets the right opportunity somewhere he’ll open some eyes and get another look.

          • So on one hand it’s encouraging, whoever found and recruited Cook did a nice job. I can also understand not wanting to disrupt the team too much since Nall is the clear #1 and AP is no joke either. But just like this year there has to be a way to get your best players the ball, and putting more than one of them on the field at a time seems like the obvious move.

  39. The good ‘ol AP reports that the leg humpers will be without starting WR Chico McClatcher for the rest of the season.

    “McClatcher’s loss is a big blow to Washington’s offense, which has sputtered at times in the Huskies’ first three victories before relying on a heavy dose of running back Myles Gaskin to dispatch the Buffaloes on Saturday.”

  40. Osu is so worried about poor attendance this weekend, they’re offering free tuition to 1 ramdom lucky student if they’re attending the game.
    That’s an expensive marketing strategy.

  41. BASEBALL:
    D1 out with their top programs rankings, Beavs #8 in the nation, on top of the PAC. Whoreton’s group slips 20 places since 2015, ranks #46 nationwide, sixth in the PAC.

    Open scrimmage at Goss, 6pm Tuesday.

    NOTE: The D1 rankings are not a projection for the 2018 season, they are overall program rankings, “… taking into consideration recent history, coaching staff quality, facilities, scholarship/financial aid situation, conference dynamics, and recruiting and player development proficiency.”
    Their analysis is behind a paywall but the list of rankings is not.

    • Yards per play?
      YPG/YPP= leads to the deduction that OSU averages 5 more offensive plays per game than UW, shouldn’t be a surprise, but was to me.

      Losing the TO battle so poorly puts some of this into perspective; that, and special teams being such a poor “weapon”.

      • Our red zone offense says, “This is team who can beat you down and steal your soul and have fun running the ball.”

        The rest of our numbers say, “This is a team with a bunch of headless chickens running around.”

        • It tells me we should be doing what we do in the red zone over the rest of the field. I wonder if it’s because the back end throws are removed as options, so we get better play calling and more executable plays for our personnel.

          It also helps that the opposition has to respect our run game on a short field, whether we’re paying attention to that part of our game or not. No D can give up a decent run in the red zone and win that specific outcome. And having the backs we do makes them have to crowd the box. Even a two second mesh keeps the backers up on the line in that situation.

          So… remove the back end throws, make the D respect your run game and take advantage of a tighter D with easier angles.

    • Makes sense to me. It feels like we’re very stingy on 1st and 2nd down, only to give up a big play on 3rd down from a blown assignment or missed tackle. In-opprotune penalties as well.

  42. OT: And the genius Mike Leach…”To me it’s not real clear what’s being protested – I haven’t heard a clear articulation of what’s protested or objected to.”

    I thought he was supposed to be “well read”–or should it be “well red”?

    • I’m sure Nike does the same thing. I know that Judson the Oregon football recuirt said Nike was letting him design recuriting ideas for them. I’m sure its all on the up and up, right!?

      • The more I read about this, the more it looks like it involves Nike and UnderArmor schools as well. Adidas is the only company so far to have a corporate figure (head of marketing) named as providing money to steer student athletes, but there are phone calls where it is mentioned he was providing that money to compete with money being sent by an unnamed rival apparel company,
        This whole thing sounds pretty deeply seeded. Not a huge surprise, however. Basically, I think we can all just assume that everything related to the sports world is corrupt at some level.

      • Adidas has been doing it longer. But Nike is the big player in HS player pay-offs. If they don’t get snagged in this to a major level, I’d say it’s not because they’re good at hiding it, because they’re not. If they don’t get investigated or end up with all the same penalties Adidas will face after all investigations are done, it will be because someone is a snitch or was tipped off.

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